nah, abby's not acting manic, she's just giddy and nervous because it's just really hit her that she's having a baby. (my mom is bipolar, so I have a very finely tuned sensor for these things.)
actually, I was thinking more about how, in the last scene where neela and gallant are fighting about him wanting to return to iraq without her, she says exactly what abby said to her when she told her she was getting married-- that is, that she didn't really know him. now seems like a good time for neela to go running back to abby for comfort...especially since they've made it quite clear that abby and luka aren't planning on getting married or moving in together, or anything...
but, on the other other hand, when abby was babbling about baby monitors and luka said that both of their apts were too small to need one, and she said "maybe it's not for this apartment," coupled w/ her talk about nesting, I got the distinct impression that she's thinking about asking him to move in w/ her in a bigger place. maybe they're gonna go suburban, get a little white house in evanston or skokie...my backup thought for neela, if she can't have abby, is that she and the smokin' dr. albright (does she have a first name, or what?) are gonna be working very closely in this surgical rotation...and dubenko did say that neela must have really made an impression on her... ;)
She may not be manifesting full-blown mania, but she's definitely manifesting some kind of high-energy phase, regardless of how understandable it may be.
You can have symptoms that are in agreement with a kind of "mini" or "mild" bipolar for years or decades, bubbling under the surface, and get them pushed up into more severe symptoms by a major life change. I'm pretty sure the writers wont go entirely in the direction I outlined above, but if this were real life, and she was a personal friend of mine, I'd have told her to check her mood changes some time ago, and I'd be asking her to at least get some kind of handle on how energetic she's feeling, given her family history.
smokin' dr. albright Yes! After Abby, she would definitely be my first choice for Neela. But since this is an Abby/Neela list, we need to find someone else for Albright. (Bring back Elizabeth, perhaps?) And we need a first name. Totally off the topic of this entire post, but I really hope we get more of her character. She interests me.
actually, I was thinking more about how, in the last scene where neela and gallant are fighting about him wanting to return to iraq without her, she says exactly what abby said to her when she told her she was getting married-- that is, that she didn't really know him. now seems like a good time for neela to go running back to abby for comfort...especially since they've made it quite clear that abby and luka aren't planning on getting married or moving in together, or anything...
but, on the other other hand, when abby was babbling about baby monitors and luka said that both of their apts were too small to need one, and she said "maybe it's not for this apartment," coupled w/ her talk about nesting, I got the distinct impression that she's thinking about asking him to move in w/ her in a bigger place. maybe they're gonna go suburban, get a little white house in evanston or skokie...my backup thought for neela, if she can't have abby, is that she and the smokin' dr. albright (does she have a first name, or what?) are gonna be working very closely in this surgical rotation...and dubenko did say that neela must have really made an impression on her... ;)
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You can have symptoms that are in agreement with a kind of "mini" or "mild" bipolar for years or decades, bubbling under the surface, and get them pushed up into more severe symptoms by a major life change. I'm pretty sure the writers wont go entirely in the direction I outlined above, but if this were real life, and she was a personal friend of mine, I'd have told her to check her mood changes some time ago, and I'd be asking her to at least get some kind of handle on how energetic she's feeling, given her family history.
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Yes! After Abby, she would definitely be my first choice for Neela. But since this is an Abby/Neela list, we need to find someone else for Albright. (Bring back Elizabeth, perhaps?) And we need a first name.
Totally off the topic of this entire post, but I really hope we get more of her character. She interests me.
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